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This section describes the facilities for handling non-numerical
data in Fortran. Character data are actually present in almost all
programs, if only in the form of file names and error messages, but
the facilities for character manipulation are now quite powerful.
The logical data type is even more indispensable since a logical
expression is used in every IF statement.
Helen Rowlands
8/27/1998